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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The higher the market demand for a drug, the greater the probability that at least one drug maker conducts basic research. Products aimed at climate change adaptation impact the latter variable, the individual’s survival rate. The more skeptics, the smaller the total available market for those products.

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Wage growth has not kept up with productivity growth; labor’s share of GDP has fallen and capital’s share has risen. anucha sirivisansuwan/Getty Images.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. What I missed in his speech was the strategy for the other 90% of the labor force. Don't get me wrong; I'm not against stimulating manufacturing and stimulating exports and so on. If exports are the future, some of the jobs may well come in manufacturing.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

Companies are beginning to realize that paying attention to the longer term, to the perceptions of their company, and to the social consequences of their products is good business. The Ford story doesn’t add up , if you assume that Ford believed that his move alone was enough to raise overall demand for cars.

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